Can you believe it we are officially at midsummer? It's the 21st June in the northern hemisphere. The longest day of the year.
It was getting light about 3.30 a.m. and the sun was up by 4:30 a.m. I thought I'd get some shots of the midsummer sun.
These photos are what it looked like by 8:30 a.m. Brilliant glaring sunshine. I used a few of the in-camera filters to try them out.
Warning! Never look through the viewfinder if you ever point your camera directly at the sun. Rather use the LCD screen on the back to line up your photographs. Looking directly at the sun can damage your eyes
This photo below is the 'toy camera' mode.
The photo below captured a lens flare, completely accidental I must add.
I tried a few different ISO settings from 100 to 800. At 800 there was way to much glare as seen below.
I tried a deflection shot by aiming away from the sun and just having it poke in the top right corner of the screen. The result is below.
Soft Focus with a little vignetting (darkening the edges) in the photo below. This was added using the in-camera filters.
Hope you have a fabulous summer solstice however you celebrate it and just think. It's all downhill now to Christmas. :)
Bonus Photograph :)
And finally 13 hours later after I posted this. I popped out to get a solstice sunset at 9:15 p.m. just to finish of this sequence of photos.
My camera gear:-
Canon EOS 70 D Camera
Sigma 20 mm Lens
| Category | (Solstice photography) |
| Camera | (Canon 70 D) |
| f Stop | (f/13) |
| Exposure | (1/100-250) |
| ISO | (100-800) |
| Lens | (Sigma 20 mm) |
Can't pointing directly at the sun damage your camera?
I saw you wrote your eyes ..that is important for sure.
Summer is officially here today.
In the olden days (10 years ago) that would have been correct @rebeccabe modern DSLR camera's have UV and other coatings on their sensors to protect them from the sun, but if you look through the viewfinder there is limited or no protection for our eyes.
A very valuable comment thank you.
Your answer is valuable to me.
Beautiful sequence. Filters do come in handy for shots like this. The lens flares in the first and second photos add more the photo. It's interesting that the sun is bright and shiny that early. I live in the tropics and the earliest the sun comes up is around 6:00 a.m.
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Thanks @leeart I did like the predicability of the tropics.
Being back in the UK after being away for so long. I now appreciate the almost constantly changing seasons. :)
Heavy clouds and lots of rain here yesterday, so I appreciate seeing your Midsummer sun! More of the same for us today.
Rainclouds can look very dramatic as you know. Get some photos :)
Will you stop it @molometer! I refuse to listen to you, interesting photographs or not!
Summer is just beginning as far as I'm concerned, the sea temperature is warming up nicely and I'm sitting here with fingers in my ears again. La, la, la, la! 😂
Ha ha it may be midsummer on the calendar but no one told the Earth!
It will continue to get warmer don't panic @gillianpearce
Now. That's more like it @molometer.
Removes fingers from ears. 😁
That’s come around rather quickly, it’s this random weather it’s totally thrown us at what month it is.
True, it has been very weird weather for the last few months.
Hopefully we will have a nice summer and I'll get to one of these motor shows. :)
Nice Picture molometer ! :D
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Thank you for the invitation. I will pop over and have a look when I get a spare moment. :)
We consider it the first day of summer.
It depends on your relative position on planet Earth. Longitude and latitude and all that good stuff. It's mid winter down in the southern hemisphere.
Nice photos. It comes so fast this time of life, and goes so quick...
Time flies when you're having fun. @wales :)
It sure does...
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